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National, The

The National is a government-owned English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi since 2008. It is also available online.

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Aerosmith: Ain't No Stopping Aerosmith

Profile and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, 1 November 2012

FOUR DECADES AGO, no sane person would have put money on Aerosmith still being alive in 2012, never mind still touring the globe and filling ...

Richard Ashcroft

Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, July 2010

MUCH LIKE his music, a conversation with Richard Paul Ashcroft quickly expands into a freeform voyage to the outer limits of the astral perimeter. Back ...

Depeche Mode

Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, April 2009

IF THERE was a manual that rock bands could follow to guarantee long-term success, Depeche Mode would probably fail every test. During three decades together ...

Flying Lotus

Profile and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, October 2010

ONE OF THE MOST exciting breakthrough artists of 2010, Flying Lotus has been hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of his generation. Besides his own genre-blurring ...

Metallica: Magnetic Metallica

Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, July 2008

THERE IS a certain grim irony to the news, announced last week, that Metallica’s latest album Death Magnetic will be released in September in a ...

Robert Plant, Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara

Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, April 2009

A LIGHT BREEZE of mellifluous music wafts from behind the half-open door of a long, low, bunker-like building nestled deep in the English countryside. Inside ...

The Stone Roses at 20

Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, September 2009

TWENTY YEARS AGO, the Stone Roses felt like an unstoppable force of nature. These four baggy-trousered young moptops from Manchester were adored all over Britain, ...

Tricky

Profile and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, October 2010

THE GREAT LOST BOY of British music, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws has been on an exotic, erratic musical odyssey since he first added whispered raps and ...

U2: No Line On The Horizon

Review by Stephen Dalton, The National, February 2009

THE LAUNCH OF a U2 album always feels bigger than a mere musical event and inevitably stirs up fierce critical friction. ...

Kanye West

Profile by Stephen Dalton, The National, September 2009

WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA branded rapper Kanye West a "jackass" for his one-man stage invasion at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York last Sunday, ...

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